If They Can't Tell You the Truth About an Atrocity Like Orlando that Leaves Behind Tremendous Forensic and Eyewitness Evidence, How Can You Trust the Media to Tell You the Truth About Hard to Trace Hacks?

First of all, whenever confronted with any 'news' story like this, one has to consider the timing and context. Last week many events happened prior to the Orlando terror attack at the Pulse gay nightclub and its wall to wall media coverage which have overshadowed many other maneuverings and, together with the Trump versus Hillary reality TV show, have served to distract the American and European public. One also has to consider from where the news story originated, what 'staging' or announcements preceded it (i.e. ISIS' warning that it would launch attacks in Florida just three days before the Pulse massacre) and the agendas of the media outlets pushing the 'news' story.

Bulls--t is as Bulls--t Does: When Even ex-NSA Analysts Who Tend to Believe the Government Don't Buy Your Ridiculous Orlando Attack Story, You've Got a Problem

In his June 13, 2016 Guerrilla update, V discusses the inconsistencies and Mack-truck sized holes in the official 'lone gunman' Omar Mateen did-it-all-himself story. In addition to eyewitnesses feeds to local television affiliates being cut off as they were saying they saw someone holding a door open for Mateen, the Guerrilla's sources have told him that there were at least three active shooters on the scene and at least eight people involved in planning the terror attack. But even if you didn't believe us or the Guerrilla's sources, the fact remains dismissing the logic of multiple Orlando shooters with the customary wave of the hand and incantation of 'conspiracy theorist' isn't working very well for the lame-stream media and the government authorities right now.

Look for example, at this tweet-stream from ex-NSA counterintelligence specialist and New York Observer magazine contributor John R. Schindler. It shows Schindler and his quite anti-'conspiracy theorist' Establishmentarian followers' skepticism that Mateen really had time to kill 49 people and wound at least as many while calling 911 to give ISIS credit for the attack, AND make Facebook posts while ranting about the U.S. government bombing Syria and Iraq to his victims -- none of whom apparently tried to rush Mateen while he was hiding behind the cover of tables or chairs inside a dimly lit nightclub.

Or take it from my friend The Saker, who as a Florida resident and former Swiss military expert knows a thing or two about the firearms available to civilian Floridians, as well as rates of fire/small arms ammo expenditure:

“What we already have is a mentally disturbed, illegal substance abusing homosexual pseudo-Muslim who violated both US and State laws on firearms and who managed to amazing feat of single-handedly confront about 320 adults, shooting over 100 people in the course of a several hours long massacre without ever being challenged, using only two guns (incapable of firing in full-auto mode!). Then we are told that the shooter locked himself with hostages in the bathroom and that he was very calm when talking to the cops. Does any of that make sense to you?

Then let’s do the math. 1 gunman, 320 people, 49 dead, 53 wounded. And yet we are also told that the US SWAT teams are the best on the planet. Remember when Wahabi Chechen terrorists took over 900 people hostage in the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow? Yes, that is nine hundred hostages. Held hostage by forty (40) terrorists. When the Russian special forces stormed the theater, not a single hostage died even though many of the terrorists had real suicide belts on and a huge bomb in the center of the building. That is 40 gunman, 900 hostages, zero dead, zero wounded.

True, after the assault something between 140 and 174 people died due to the gas used by the special forces to put everybody – terrorists and hostages – into instantaneous sleep: the local EMT did not have enough personnel and equipment to “reverse” so many people drugged by an unknown gas (many died on the way to the hospital). But even if we blame the 174 dead on the security forces, that still leaves 726 people saved out of 900. And that is how the supposedly “poorly trained” Russian special forces performed. So how do the best SWAT teams on the planet get a score of 50+ people killed by a single (unexperienced) hostage taker? Either they are not nearly as good as most people think, or they are lying about what really happened.

The 'Conspiracy Theorist' Candidate: How The Donald is Rattling the MSM's Cage and Confidence in their Control Over the Narrative of Events

When an often Establishmentarian, burned out ex-NSA troll like Schindler agrees with the likes of The Saker or former Reagan Deputy Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts that the official Orlando story is a joke, then the Establishment has a real problem on its hands. Either Mr. Mateen had accomplices who have yet to be identified and which law enforcement will be under external and internal pressure to identify as they're still at large and dangerous, or Orlando was a very sloppy false flag operation.

As with Sandy Hook the question of how a single mentally ill individual could achieve such an incredible feat of marksmanship and killing, even against passive victims who offered no resistance, isn't going away anytime soon. Adding to the pressure on the Florida and federal authorities investigating the Pulse night club massacre is the strong possibility the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States will question how Mateen acted alone.

In a sign of The Washington Post's sense of urgency regarding preempting or deflecting anything Trump will say or has said about Orlando and the FBI's failure to prevent it despite having Mateen on their radar in a previous investigation and Mateen's known terrorist ties as a 'vetted' background-checked DHS contractor employee, Pravda on the Potomac had this to say:

“Following the country’s most deadly mass shooting, Donald Trump was asked to explain what he meant when he said President Obama either does not understand radicalized Muslim terrorists or “he gets it better than anybody understands.”

“Well,” Trump said on the “Today Show” Monday morning, “there are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it. A lot of people think maybe he doesn’t want to know about it. I happen to think that he just doesn’t know what he’s doing, but there are many people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it. He doesn’t want to see what’s really happening. And that could be.”

In other words, Trump was not directly saying that he believes the president sympathizes with the terrorist who killed at least 49 people in an Orlando nightclub. He was implying that a lot of people are saying that.

Trump frequently couches his most controversial comments this way, which allows him to share a controversial idea, piece of tabloid gossip or conspiracy theory without technically embracing it. If the comment turns out to be popular, Trump will often drop the distancing qualifier — “people think” or “some say.” If the opposite happens, Trump can claim that he never said the thing he is accused of saying, equating it to retweeting someone else’s thoughts on Twitter.

This is particularly true when it comes to Trump’s comments on Islam. For months, the candidate has portrayed Muslims as the leading threat working against the United States and has routinely suggested in a wink-wink fashion that the president might secretly be a follower.”

Trump was not referring directly to Orlando, even though the Post tries to limit the scope of his remarks to the terrorist attack, while The Donald was discussing the broader context of Barack Hussein Obama's half-assed waging of the 'war on ISIS' and why Obama, who once wrote that the Islamic call to prayer heard in his youth in Indonesia as 'one of the prettiest sounds in the world' has testily refused to use the words 'radical Islam'. This week Obama gave a White House speech in which he angrily defended the rejection of 'radical Islam' in his speeches, saying it wouldn't change anything and would only hurt the USA's ability to find Muslim allies against ISIS:

Pres. Obama on not using phrase 'radical Islam': "Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away." https://t.co/6XxBD5i45h

Obama's speech came a few days after he turned into a stuttering Porky pig mess while attacking Trump without using The Donald's name in an apparent teleprompter to brain glitch, while out campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

Since much of the mainstream media exists today as little more than propaganda arms of the Democratic Party or court-appointed chroniclers of the Obama White House, the need to bail out Barry with more negative press about Trump who is clearly getting under Big Zero's skin of late has been paramount. Here our friend 'W the Intelligence Insider' may interject that Trump is playing the same outsider businessman role that H. Ross Perot did in 1992, when the Texan briefly out-polled Clinton and George H.W. Bush before bizarrely withdrawing from the presidential race after many believe, he or his family were threatened to not take Perot's opposition role too seriously.

Bad Blood Between Trump and the Washington Com-post aka Pravda on the Potomac

Of course the Post's relentless attacks on Trump in its news and not just editorial sections must be seen in the wider context of The Donald's feud with the paper's owner, Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, and his suggestion that Bezos' giant corporation off-shores huge profits to evade U.S. taxes, as well as the revocation by the Trump campaign of certain Post journalists' press credentials. That the mainstream media is being hypocritical in making a bigger stink about revoked press credentials than it did about journalists actually being threatened with prison over not giving up their sources, or that the Obama Administration has also withdrawn White House access accreditation to reporters, almost goes without saying.

Nonetheless, the Post's decades-long cozy relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency is a known fact as is its relentlessly Russophobic, Cold War 2.0 promoting editorial policy which is at odds with Trump's vow to 'get along with Russia'. The last thing the military industrial complex that provides much of the Post's advertising as well as its 'talent pool' of retired military contributors needs is peace breaking out with Moscow.

Rally Around the Flag With Hillary Against Vlad the Bad and the 'Pro-Dictators' Candidate

Clearly the Hillary Clinton campaign, having dispatched Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders after a suspiciously timed Associated Press declaration that Clinton had locked up the nomination even before Sanders voters could go to the polls on June 7th in the largest Democratic-leaning state in the union California, is turning the full brunt of its media shock troops onto Trump. That means one of the Narratives the Clinton camp and its media sycophants (but I repeat myself) are advancing about Trump, that he has a 'bromance' with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that The Donald is 'the Kremlin's candidate', must be advanced (a similar propaganda is spouted by the 'Remain' pro-EU campaigners in the upcoming Brexit vote in the UK, who falsely insist Putin, Le Pen and Trump are the only global politicians who support Britain voting to leave the European Union).

Hillary Clinton herself pushed this talking point in her big 'foreign policy' speech which attacked Trump as unqualified in foreign affairs and which received enormously positive coverage from an MSM now utterly in the tank for Hillary. Meanwhile, a suspiciously high number of Europeans and non-American NATOists like the Bulgarian 'media owner' @ChristoGrozev are on Twitter every day trolling Trump and his American supporters -- but far be it for any 'conspiracy nut' to suggest foreigners are now being paid by the globalists to troll or insult Americans supportive of Trump and his friendlier face towards Russia.

Why the Russians Hacking the DNC is Likely a Psyop:Timing, Context and the Clever Exploitation of the Alternative Media's Interest in Russia

Consider the following sequence of events in the past week pointing to the 'Russians hacked the DNC' reporting of The Washington Post and (allegedly Rothschild-owned) Reuters as being little more than a psyop, one that is already starting to be questioned (albeit far less than the ridiculously implausible lone gunman in Orlando narrative):

1) Rumblings come out of FBI shortly after Obama endorses Hillary! and Bernie loses a (likely rigged) primary in California, with a little suspiciously timed voting suppression 'help' from the AP calling the Democratic nomination for Hillary!, that HRC is not going to be indicted. These reports are contradicted by others saying that the investigation of HRC's use of highly classified emails on her home bathroom server has turned 'criminal' and widened to include favors she granted while Secretary of State in return for payoffs by foreign (primarily Middle Eastern) governments to Clinton Foundation.

2) Sorscha Faal, a mysterious and purportedly Irish (disinfo?) site widely cited across the alternative media, says Russia's foreign intelligence service the (KGB successor) SVR is about to dump major HRC email secrets on Hillary that their operatives hacked off bathroom server.

3) Julian Assange, the leader of the hacktivist group Wikileaks, announces that his organization has enough incriminating emails obtained by hackers from the Clinton server to see Hillary indicted and convicted of numerous crimes. Critics of Wikileaks play into the 'rally around Hillary and against Trump or those evil Russians win' Narrative by insisting that Assange is a tool of Russian intelligence, and his presence in the Ecuadorian Embassy for several years to avoid UK arrest and extradition over a (likely U.S./NATO trumped up) rape charge in his native Sweden serves Moscow's purposes.

Nonetheless, there is no evidence that the emails Assange and Wikileaks plan to dump have any link to Russian intelligence, despite the best efforts of people like John R. Schindler to assume everything Assange does is either at the behest of or with the assistance of Moscow's security services.

Both the Sorscha Faal and Wikileaks announcements are widely picked up by alternative media including Breitbart, as is an OilPrice.com report, leading to the two separate leaks being conflated into one single supposed SVR leak of Hillary's kompromat. But herein is the problem. As Infowars.com to their credit points out, Sorscha Faal has a history of bizarre or false claims, and 'her' site the European Union Times is an aggregator of disinformation.

In other words, what we are likely seeing here is a textbook example of the Cass Sunstein tactic of government psyops specialists making up a conspiracy theory that pushes certain alternative media buttons (eg 'MH17 was really MH370' 'the Russians are going after Hillary' or 'martial law') in order to discredit the so-called 'conspiracy theorists'. We saw an example of this psyop with the Jade Helm 2015 exercise that targeted alternative media (especially Infowars.com) and took advantage of their tendency for alarmism, and we're seeing it again (though Brother Alex Jones' crew didn't quite take the bait this time). Ironically, the cleverness of this latest lowdown dirty psyop is that it takes advantage of the alternative media's high evaluation of Russian hackers' skills, if not latent or expressed Russophilia, as well as their widely shared loathing of the globalist scumbag Hillary Clinton.

4) The Orlando terrorist attack happens, which coincidentally may or may not be directly related to this chain of events -- but is nonetheless a major embarrassment to the FBI that interviewed Omar Mateen several years ago and concluded he did not pose a terror threat. It's also a threat to the stock price of his CIA, MI6 and linked employer GS4 -- which after a shoddy background check apparently didn't discover Mateen's father was a self-proclaimed presidential candidate in his native Afghanistan. Mateen also passed the background check despite his history of domestic violence. As the Guerrilla detailed in his Monday June 13 audio report, Mateen with the transport of illegal aliens including potentially radical Muslims who infiltrated the country through Mexico.

The Orlando attack is also yet another embarrassment, like the San Bernadino jihadi couple who posted their radical views online for the whole Facebook-ing world to see, for NSA mass surveillance advocates. Clearly Mateen's association with the first American suicide bomber to self-detonate in Syria and a radical Florida imam should have put him on the FISA warrant list for continuous collection flagging or human analysis of his calls/emails. Once again NSA either failed or was not permitted to keep tabs on this guy -- either way, an embarrassment to another three letter agency and its sycophantic 'Snowden is the worst traitor since Kim Philby if not Judas' promoters like John R. Schindler.

The Russia Analyst will have more to say about the U.S. Deep State's Jekyll and Hyde relationship with radical Islam, alternatively warning of the jihadist terror threat while DCI John Brennan farcically denies any Saudi government link to 9/11, in a forthcoming post. Suffice to say, there are cracks emerging in the U.S. Deep State between those who want to maintain the alliance with Saudi Arabia come hell or high water, and those who believe the Saudis and perhaps even the Turks or at least Erdogan personally can be dispensed with going forward. Other issues dividing the Deep State include the LGB and now Transgendered propaganda directed at the U.S. military, and the costs of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's open borders policy to EU and even NATO's cohesion, with allies like Poland and Hungary defying Berlin and Brussels on migration quotas.

5) On Monday the Post and Reuters put out their 'Russians hacked the DNC' story, which alleges that no personal data of Democratic National Committee donors was stolen -- as would be the case if the hackers were motivated by identify theft or potential financial gain. However, electronic security experts begin to question how the supposed experts at Crowdstrike, a data security firm hired by the DNC, were able to attribute the attack. The hackers themselves, who go by the handle 'Guccifer 2' after the mysterious Romanian hacker Guccifer that previously targeted the Clintons, mocked DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's false claim that no donors' personal data and addresses had been compromised. Guccifer 2.0 did this by releasing lengthy lists of DNC donors with their names, addresses, and contribution levels:

“Earlier this week Crowdstrike, a security company hired by the Democratic National Committee, announced that the party’s servers had been deeply penetrated by hackers working for the Russian government, who had made off with many sensitive files, including the DNC’s Trump oppo research spreadsheet.

According to Crowdstrike, the hacker(s) showed all the signs of being state-level actors, including the use of sophisticated, shifting zero-day exploits that flew under the radar of the DNC’s security systems.

But the story just took a turn for the weird. An anonymous person or persons calling themself “Guccifer 2.0,” has posted many files that appear to have come from inside the DNC’s network, claiming credit for hacking the DNC. Guccifer 2.0 claims to be a lone hacker, working independently, and has mocked Crowdstrike for attributing much more sophistication to the attack than was warranted.

Guccifer 2.0’s alias is a nod to the Romanian hacker who broke into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and posted a dump of the mail there under the nom de guerre “Guccifer.”

Donald Trump has suggested that the truth is that the DNC hacked itself. He is wrong.”

Trump's response to the widely touted release of the Democrats' 'opposition research file' on him has been dismissive, and he has indeed suggested that the Dems may have hacked themselves to distract from the investigation of Hillary Clinton's gross mishandling of classified information and other scandals:

“On Wednesday, Gawker and the Smoking Gun published copies of what appeared to be the Trump files taken from the DNC. The websites said they had been contacted by an anonymous source claiming to be linked to the hack.

“This is all information that has been out there for many years,” said the presumptive Republican nominee in a statement. “Much of it is false and/or entirely inaccurate. We believe it was the DNC that did the ‘hacking’ as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader. Too bad the DNC doesn’t hack Crooked Hillary’s 33,000 missing emails.””

To sum up why this 'Russian hack' is likely bullshit to whip up anti-Russian hysteria ahead of the upcoming NATO Warsaw summit and official EU vote on sanctions against Moscow in July, we turn to the German blogger Moon of Alabama:

“Russia denied to have anything to do with that alleged hack. That did not prevent the Washington Post to come with a listical about Five more hacks the West has tied to Russia none of which is likely to have any Russian origin.

Trump for one claims that the DNC “hacked” itself to be able to publish their claims against him.

But now for the fun. A hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0 just published a blogpost with documents from the hack of the DNC server.

Worldwide known cyber security company CrowdStrike announced that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) servers had been hacked by “sophisticated” hacker groups. I’m very pleased the company appreciated my skills so highly))) But in fact, it was easy, very easy.

Guccifer may have been the first one who penetrated Hillary Clinton’s and other Democrats’ mail servers. But he certainly wasn’t the last. No wonder any other hacker could easily get access to the DNC’s servers.

Shame on CrowdStrike: Do you think I’ve been in the DNC’s networks for almost a year and saved only 2 documents? Do you really believe it?

Here are just a few docs from many thousands I extracted when hacking into DNC’s network.”

Who or what Guccifer 2.0 is -- whether an unlikely 'front man' for the Russians, an 'independent contractor' like the original Guccifer who has now raised a big stink, or an operative simply fulfilling his role in a false flag operation blamed on the Russians remains to be seen. But we agree with Trump supporter and author Mike Cernovich that the big DNC oppo file on Trump now published by Gawker is a joke, and a rehash of the same allegations that have been made over and over against Trump for months. The notion that the Kremlin would need ultra-sophisticated hackers to get at this information to somehow 'help' Trump is a laughable piece of Atlanticist/Democrat Party agitprop. We also share the MOA blogger's suspicions this is all too conveniently timed with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's announcement that the Alliance could under certain circumstances, invoke the Washington Treaty's Article V and respond to a severe cyber attack with military force in the real world:

“The whole story in The Washington Post was a anti-Russia nonsense based on self-promotion of an obviously incompetent cyber security company.

But it is dangerous.

I am afraid that such propaganda will one day be used as another Gulf of Tonkin fake to start a war. NATO is already preparing the public for such a move:

NATO may react to future cyber attacks by deploying conventional weapons, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview published by Germany’s Bild newspaper on Thursday.

”A severe cyber attack may be classified as a case for the alliance. Then NATO can and must react,” the newspaper quoted Stoltenberg as saying. “How, that will depend on the severity of the attack.”

One wonders if The Washington Post scaremongering about alleged Russian cyber abilities was coordinated with that NATO announcement.

To even think of such conventional retribution for a cyber attack is lunatic. No cyber attack is ever attributable with any certainty. The U.S. National Security Agency, as well as other state sponsored entities, would have no trouble to fake a “Russian cyber attack”. If one lone hacker in the U.S., where Guccifer 2.0 seems to reside, can do such how much more convincing would any intentional, government sponsored fake be?”

Stay vigilant my RogueMoney friends, and be on guard to behind the scenes players exploiting the alternative media's fears about confrontation with Russia or its healthy respect for Russian hacking or even real world military capabilities for another lowdown dirty psyop. As V the Guerrilla Economist said this week, the summer of chaos has begun.

The Russia Analyst is a U.S. based writer, editor and entrepreneur who previously lived and worked in Moscow. In addition to his on the ground experience in the Russian Federation, 'James' has been a close observer and commentator on Russian business, politics and culture for over a decade.

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